I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro a couple weeks ago. I like it fine and have had no trouble with it. I'm reinstalling a lot of software, and I haven't had anything not work yet. As a DAW, I've got Live 8, FLS 10 and Renoise 2.8 on it, and all work fine so far.

They've made a lot of improvements: my boot time went from about 4 minutes until I could do anything to about 30 seconds (coming off Vista which I ran for about 5 years); file copying is much faster; Task Manager is easier to decipher; UAC is less intrusive. Even with the hassle of reinstalling my software, it was worth it to me to upgrade

Anyways, it didn't take me long to figure out the changes made to touch-enable the interface. I don't have a touch screen, so whenever a file type is configured to open in a Metro app, I switch it to use my Windows app of choice. For example, PDF's would open in a Metro reader app, and I switched that to use Foxit Reader. I've got it now where I don't see much of Metro at all.

I thought HARD about the Windows 8 pro upgrade but now the price is gone up . If its not broken dont fix it , so I will stay on Windows7 64 . But , if I was building a new machine Id probably go W8pro 64 oem with all the classic shell tweaks to make it just like W7 .

rtkeeling wrote:I've got it now where I don't see much of Metro at all.Roy

Me too. Except when I have to take Win7 64bit out on the internet and read Win8 threads and MS 'Metro' is 'Modern' propaganda.

Can't imagine 'upgrading' to an OS that I'd have to hack like the XP Rainlendar days to get rid of the PlaySkool interface. I want my tracks to have charms, not my operating system.

My system has been booting in less than 12 seconds for 3 years, so not seeing how Win8 will help on the performance side. If I decide to run my 100+ track projects on a 10" tablet with a weak 25 watt TDP dual core, then Win8.5 might be an option.